New Batch of COVID-19 Links
If We All Get COVID Anyway, Should We Just Get It Over With?, from Medscape Commentary, by F. Perry Wilson
A detailed and well-reasoned explanation
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9 articles from The Washington Post:
Latin America had time to prepare for the coronavirus. It couldn’t stop the inevitable.
(RIO DE JANEIRO - For a time, early in the pandemic, when Latin America was mostly a spectator watching outbreaks in China, then Europe, then the United States, there was hope that when the coronavirus arrived here, things would be different. The climate was warmer. The people were younger. The governments had more time to study the mistakes made elsewhere, and to prepare.
Weeks later, more than a million people have been infected, tens of thousands are dead, and those hopes are gone.
The warmer weather did little to slow the disease as it devastated tropical metropolises in Ecuador and Brazil. Youth has not protected Mexico or Peru. And despite early and aggressive government action in many cases, Latin America has been unable to avert what now appears to have always been inevitable.)
Students in masks? Sick kids staying home? Teachers aren’t convinced plans will keep them safe.
Winter is coming south of the equator, along with predictions of the coronavirus’s spread
(Humidity interacts with temperature as well as ultraviolet rays, for instance, and heat and UV exposure are also postulated in some ongoing studies as potential suppressors of the virus’s spread. Others are examining how those climatic factors may be confounding variables, with altitude possibly being a more important measure.)
Coronavirus infections haven’t spiked since Europe loosened lockdowns.There are many theories about why.
Scientist behind Sweden’s covid-19 strategy suggests it allowed too many deaths
The coronavirus is reshaping an old hierarchy: Who can travel where
India’s lockdown caused untold hardship. It also inspired extraordinary generosity.
The coronavirus pandemic claims another victim: Medical research for deadly rare diseases
The strange new quiet in New York emergency rooms
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COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months
The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms-and disbelief from doctors and friends., from The Atlantic
Are we underestimating how many people are resistant to Covid-19?, from The Guardian
(...From the beginning, Covid-19 struck unevenly across the globe, and scientists have been trying to understand the reasons. Why are some populations or sectors of a population more vulnerable than others? Or to turn the question around, why are some groups relatively protected?)
(thanks to lindahoyland for the link!)
A detailed and well-reasoned explanation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
9 articles from The Washington Post:
Latin America had time to prepare for the coronavirus. It couldn’t stop the inevitable.
(RIO DE JANEIRO - For a time, early in the pandemic, when Latin America was mostly a spectator watching outbreaks in China, then Europe, then the United States, there was hope that when the coronavirus arrived here, things would be different. The climate was warmer. The people were younger. The governments had more time to study the mistakes made elsewhere, and to prepare.
Weeks later, more than a million people have been infected, tens of thousands are dead, and those hopes are gone.
The warmer weather did little to slow the disease as it devastated tropical metropolises in Ecuador and Brazil. Youth has not protected Mexico or Peru. And despite early and aggressive government action in many cases, Latin America has been unable to avert what now appears to have always been inevitable.)
Students in masks? Sick kids staying home? Teachers aren’t convinced plans will keep them safe.
Winter is coming south of the equator, along with predictions of the coronavirus’s spread
(Humidity interacts with temperature as well as ultraviolet rays, for instance, and heat and UV exposure are also postulated in some ongoing studies as potential suppressors of the virus’s spread. Others are examining how those climatic factors may be confounding variables, with altitude possibly being a more important measure.)
Coronavirus infections haven’t spiked since Europe loosened lockdowns.There are many theories about why.
Scientist behind Sweden’s covid-19 strategy suggests it allowed too many deaths
The coronavirus is reshaping an old hierarchy: Who can travel where
India’s lockdown caused untold hardship. It also inspired extraordinary generosity.
The coronavirus pandemic claims another victim: Medical research for deadly rare diseases
The strange new quiet in New York emergency rooms
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months
The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms-and disbelief from doctors and friends., from The Atlantic
Are we underestimating how many people are resistant to Covid-19?, from The Guardian
(...From the beginning, Covid-19 struck unevenly across the globe, and scientists have been trying to understand the reasons. Why are some populations or sectors of a population more vulnerable than others? Or to turn the question around, why are some groups relatively protected?)
(thanks to lindahoyland for the link!)